But Virgil sometimes seems to occupy a conceptual category in between Dante's corporality and the weightless dead, with his own body operating in a manner in between the poet's "living feet" and the nonsensical, burning soles of canto 19.

What remains when everything else is taken away or forgotten, Glover optimistically suggests, is "love," not a Platonic disposition but a sensuality closely tied to the body's corporality, to its blood, its warmth, its sheltering embrace.

Nettleton emphasizes that the growing impact of the media, mass culture, fashion and the Internet enable more and more extensive interventions in the human body, manipulations with corporality, as well as designing and transforming the body.

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